Realigning actors in an urbanizing world : governance and institutions from a development perspective /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003. |
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| Description: | xi, 425 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4925080 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- 1. Evolving Views in Urban and Regional Development Debates in Africa, Asia and Latin America: Introducing the Key Themes
- Part I. Urban Economies and the Local-Global Interface
- 2. Firms, Regions and Resources in a Globalizing Economy: A Relational View
- 3. Embeddedness: The Role of Local Factors in Economic Development
- 4. Urban Cluster Trajectories in Developing Countries: Beyond the Industrial District Model
- 5. Partnerships, Meso-Institutions and Learning: New Local and Regional Economic Development Initiatives in Latin America
- 6. Earning More or Less: Income, Micro-Production and Women's Status in Lima's Poor Neighborhoods
- 7. Urban Fringes in Asia: Markets versus Plans
- Part II. Local Governance, Partnerships and Urban Development
- 8. Healthy Cities and Urban Governance
- 9. Popular Participation and Urban Poverty Alleviation in Bolivia
- 10. Popular Participation and the Participatory Planning Practice in Latin America: Some Evidence from Bolivia and Brazil
- 11. Combining Capitals: The Assets of Community-Based Organizations and Local Government for Neighborhood Environmental Management in Lima
- 12. New Partnerships in Urban Solid Waste Management and their Contribution to Sustainable Development: Experiences in Accra (Ghana) and Chennai (India)
- Part III. Livelihoods, Rural-Urban Linkages and Regional Development
- 13. About Trade and Trust: The Question of Livelihood and Social Capital in Rural-Urban Interactions
- 14. The Provisioning of African Cities, with Ouagadougou as a Case Study
- 15. Economic Networks and the Importance of Rural-Urban Linkages, with the Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
- 16. Resource Flows and Urban Governance: Approaching Environmental Transitions in Cities and their Hinterland
- 17. Regional Development Planning in Latin America: Towards a More Sustainable Use of Space
- Part IV. Urban Poverty Reduction: Mapping the Policy Arena
- 18. Urban Poverty Reduction Options at Local Level in a Globalizing World
- 19. Reducing Urban Poverty: Constraints on the Effectiveness of Aid Agencies and Development Banks and some Suggestions for Change
- 20. The Rise and Decline of an Urban Poverty Unit in the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation
- Index
- Maps: UvA Kaartenmakers, Amsterdam